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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5860 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 9 of 10 25 April 2015 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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The problem with reference grammars is that, more often than not, they are useful only to native speakers or to advanced learners armed with a lot of terminology.
I remember starting Italian with Grammatica pratica della lingua Italiana and it was great. For more advanced levels, the Istituto recommended the Grammatica avanzata della lingua Italiana and it all became confusing, even for the teachers. One of the charming characteristics of Italian is that you can rarely be sure whether an expression does not exist: maybe they use it in Rome, Naples or Palermo. So our teachers started asking each other, and it turned out that some of the examples were really far-fetched, and certainly beyond the average learner. One of the publishing houses with the most experience in both school manuals and dictionaries / grammars is Porto Editora. The layout is appealing and they usually cater for all levels, foreigners included. Maybe you want to check out their website and see whether you find something that interests you. Edited by Luso on 25 April 2015 at 3:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5061 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 10 of 10 25 April 2015 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | ||
I see where you tried to correct your sentence in your original post. The use of advice here is incorrect in this sentence. Advise is the verb. Advice is a noun. The sentence would be correct if you wrote "Can you please advise me on a Portuguese grammar...". "Advice" and "advise" have an important but subtle pronunciation difference. You could also say: "Can you please give me some advice on ...". I agree with Luso. Porto Editora is a superb source of Portuguese language material. I have one of their dictionaries and the Gramática português para estrangeiros grammar book I recommended comes from them as well. Both are excellent. How much you will gain out of it by relying on your native Italian, and second language Spanish and French, I can't tell you. Have you thought of finding a Portuguese grammar written in italiano at a more basic learner's level? Also, check out the monolingual Portuguese books written for learners by Isabel Coimbra. Edited by iguanamon on 25 April 2015 at 9:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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